PowerHouse 7.10G on OVMS 7.2
Richard Witkopp
witkopp@idt.com
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:48:30 -0800
Having friends that work at Digital, Compaq, and even
Tandem, I must agree with Allison. Rather than salvaging
the corpse, they are picking every last bit of flesh off the
bones. If management runs Digital with the same heavy-handed
penny-pinching manner they run Compaq, forget about much
innovation ever coming out of Digital again.
> To be clear on my personal view, again, DEC executives
> sold off major portions of the company, the VP of
> Technology Development went to Microsoft and the CEO
> finally cut off his own head. Compaq did salvage the
> corpse.
>
> --- "Hamilton, Allison" <Allison.Hamilton@Cognos.COM>
> wrote:
> > > Ugh! I will NEVER get used to this! :-)
> > >
> > Amen to that! As well as being a staunch DIGITAL
> VMS
> > (I don't know if I can
> > ever call it COMPAQ VMS!) user, my husband was one
> of
> > those who vanished
> > from the force when Compaq bought out DEC. And, I
> > disagree with Jon Hawks
> > comment that "Compaq has saved this great little
> > company.". Our experience
> > is that they threw away many of the good parts of
> DEC
> > (and I don't mean sold
> > off, I mean just stopped!) All it seems that they
> > really wanted was the
> > Support groups... sigh. There's not much of DEC
> left
> > in Compaq.
> > Allison Hamilton
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Richard Witkopp[SMTP:witkopp@idt.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 12:54 PM
> > > To: 'PowerHouse List'
> > > Subject: RE: PowerHouse 7.10G on OVMS 7.2
> > >
> > > > We have not tested on OpenVMS 7.2 as yet, but we
> > have
> > > > customers who are
> > > > running it and Compaq has made statements about
> > upward
> > > ^^^^^^
> > > Ugh! I will NEVER get used to this! :-)
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